jquery ImageOverlay problem

I have added quite a number of jquery plugin to enhance the UX of the jiaoz web site.

One of which is the image overlay plugin which works great in browse and search page. When you mouse over the thumbnail a text overlay will slides up the image title. A great way to browse the pictures.

However it seems sometimes it causes problem in Firefox, I can reproduce it in Firefox on Windows XP and Ubuntu 64bit OS but easier to reproduce in WinXP. So far I do see this problem in Safari, Chrome or Opera.

So I am wondering if this is Firefox related or it problem coming from the ImageOverlay plugin itself.

The problem basically is related to the layout. It seems the script causes the layout to be distorted. However, the weird thing is it doesn’t always happen. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t, so this makes me think that the problem probably lies with some timing issue.

If anyone encountered such problem before I would like to know … meanwhile I will need to some debugging.